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Tuesday, September 16, 2014 6:30 Pm Jul - Aug 2014 Vol. XXV, No 7 printoutKeystone MacCentral Macintosh Users Group ❖ http://www.keystonemac.com We are enjoying the summer. We will be back in September. We hope to see you then. KeyMac Board Meet us Tuesday, September 16, 2014 6:30 p.m. Attendance is free and open to all interested persons. Contents Board of Directors Why iWork Had to Change (and What That Has to Do with Aperture) President by Michael E. Cohen . 3 - 4 Linda J Cober Six Useful Apple Accessories by Josh Centers . n4 - 6 Vice President Charge Your Electronics Before Flying, or Risk Losing Them Tom Owad by Steve McCabe . 6 - 7 Recorder Aperture’s Golden Hour by Jeff Carlson . 7 - 9 Gary Brandt Rumors and Reality by Tim Sullivan. 9 - 11 Treasurer Jul - Aug Software Review . 11 - 13 Tim Sullivan Keystone MacCentral is a not-for-profit group of Macintosh enthusiasts who Program Director generally meet the third Tuesday of every month to exchange information, Gary Brandt participate in question-and-answer sessions, view product demonstrations, and obtain resource materials that will help them get the most out of their computer Membership Chair systems. Meetings are free and open to the public. The Keystone MacCentral printout is the official newsletter of Keystone MacCentral and an independent publication Eric Adams not affiliated or otherwise associated with or sponsored or sanctioned by any for-profit organization, including Apple Inc. Copyright © 2014, Keystone MacCentral, Correspondence Secretary 310 Somerset Drive, Shiresmanstown, PA 17011. Sandra Cober Nonprofit user groups may reproduce articles form the Printout only if the Newsletter Editor copyright notice is included, the articles have not been edited, are clearly attributed to the original author and to the Keystone MacCentral Printout, and Tim Sullivan a copy of the publication is mailed to the editor of this newsletter. Industry Liaison The opinions, statements, positions, and views stated herein are those of the Wendy Adams author(s) or publisher and are not intended to be the opinions, statements, positions, or views of Apple Computer, Inc. Web Master Throughout this publication, trademarked names are used. Rather than include a Tom Bank II trademark symbol in every occurrence of a trademarked name, we are using the trademarked names only for editorial purposes and to the benefit of the trademark owner with no intent of trademark infringement. Keystone MacCentral Essentials Meeting Place Giant Food (upstairs) Corner of Trindle Road & 32nd St (Route 15) Camp Hill Web Site http://www.keystonemac.com Mailing Address 310 Somerset Drive Shiresmanstown, PA 17011 Jul - Aug 2014 Page 2 by Michael E. Cohen Why iWork Had to Change (and What That Has to Do with Aperture) recently announced it is phasing out to my Mac, and never once saw a layout shift or a font get Aperture and iPhoto in favor of a new changed as a result of the document’s peregrinations. To be ApplePhotos app for both iOS and OS X (“Say Goodbye to iPhoto sure, if I use a font on the Mac that iOS doesn’t provide, the and Aperture,” 27 June 2014). document does look different in iOS: that’s because Pages for iOS provides a substitute font for display purposes. But I can hear you thinking (yes, I can do that), “What does the iOS app also remembers the font I originally used, and Aperture or iPhoto have to do with iWork?” Here’s what: when the document gets back to my Mac, that font shows once again, I’m seeing comments pop up in various places up again right where it belongs. (In my few experiments asserting that Apple’s goal when it reworks its software with the other iWork apps, Numbers and Keynote, I saw is either the deliberate “iOS-ification” of the software, or similar examples of document integrity being preserved as deliberately “dumbing it down.” Right after the Aperture/ I moved documents between platforms.) iPhoto news broke, in fact, I saw one commenter (no link, because I don’t want to embarrass the person) write that So much for dumbing down. Now what about the replacement of Aperture by the yet-to-be-released iOS-ification? Photos app is just like what Apple did when it (purportedly) replaced Pages on the Mac with the iOS version. As I said, I’m not quite sure I know what that term even means, but I think it might mean that the apps all look Yes, that is what the commenter claimed happened last alike and act alike, whether on an iOS device or a Mac. If October with iWork. That’s flat out wrong, of course: Apple so, that’s certainly not true of Pages, or of the other iWork did no such thing with Pages, nor with the rest of iWork, apps, and I don’t think that is what is going to happen with and I’m pretty sure that Apple won’t be doing that with Photos either. Aperture. First of all, the apps don’t look alike; in the case of Pages, I Now, I won’t deny that each of the iWork apps lost a lot of have hundreds of screenshots that prove just the opposite. features when their new versions were released last October. Yes, there are some similarities. For example, the default But after studying one, Pages (after all, I am writing “Take guide colors in Pages for Mac and Pages for iOS are the Control of Pages”), I can declare that Apple has not delib- same. And, yes, that is a trivial example: I chose it because erately “dumbed down” Pages, nor has the Mac version most of the examples of iOS-ified appearance in the Mac undergone “iOS-ification” (whatever that is supposed to app are trivial. The similarities between the Mac iWork mean anyway). What Apple has done is to ensure document apps and their iOS counterparts are skin-deep, designed integrity when a Pages document travels from Mac to iOS to create a family resemblance between the Mac and iOS and back. Providing that integrity is what made the iWork apps. reboot necessary, and something like that is what is behind the transition from Aperture (and iPhoto) to Photos. I’m fine with that because, regardless of their superficial similarities, each of the apps works the way you expect it to Let’s think back to how things worked with iWork last work on its respective platform. For instance, on the Mac, September. Suppose you created a Pages document on your you can position an object precisely on the page in a Pages Mac and saved it in iCloud as Apple encouraged you to document by entering coordinates in the Format Inspector, do. Then you opened the document on your iPad, and you whereas on an iPad you use multi-touch finger gestures to saw, to your disappointment, that some fonts had changed move objects precisely. You get the same result, but you do and that layouts had shifted. So you sighed and went back it in quite different ways; the apps don’t act alike. to your Mac and opened the document with Pages there, and you discovered — now, to your horror — that the Nor do the Mac and iOS apps provide identical capabilities: changes you saw on your iPad had carried over to the Mac. the Mac Pages app provides a lot more functionality than Then you said a few words that I won’t repeat here. the iOS app. Take styles, for instance: you can apply para- graph, character, or list styles in either app, but you can The true “dumbing down” was what happened to iWork create new styles only on the Mac. There are dozens of documents as they traveled across platforms. places in my Pages book where I point out that one feature or another is only available on the Mac. This doesn’t happen with the new iWork apps. Over the past few months, I’ve flung Pages documents from my So much for iOS-ification. That’s not what’s going on with Mac, to my browser, to my iPhone, to my iPad, and back the Mac apps either. Jul - Aug 2014 Page 3 What is going on, as I said, is that Apple is making sure transparently managing the handoffs. As I pointed out in that the documents handled by its apps on any of its “iCloud: The Anti-Social Network,” 6 February 2014, Apple platforms retain their integrity. This means that opening up sees iCloud as a digital hub that connects your Apple de- a Keynote presentation on an iPad won’t discard carefully vices, allowing seamless access to your information from applied transitions because of a missing animation, or that any device. But unless the apps on all of Apple’s platforms opening a Pages document on an iPhone won’t permanently can provide a good user experience and not damage the data blow out your document’s layout because a font is missing. in the process, the iCloud digital hub would be almost useless. To achieve this, Apple rebuilt the iWork apps from the ground up. In the process, some features in all the iWork And that’s exactly what Apple is doing with iWork: making apps were lost (though in fact, Apple promised to restore sure that when you store an iWork document in iCloud, many of the missing features over time and has begun to you won’t damage it no matter the device you open it on. do so). Apple is likely doing something similar with Photos, The previous generation of iWork apps was not designed developing data and metadata implementations that can for a seamless, cross-device, cloud-managed experience work efficiently for images across all the platforms that — how could they be? There was no App store when they Apple supports.
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